Coverage archive
12th Middlesex
Newton's pension bond waits on the market and the State House. Mayor Marc Laredo and Chief Financial Officer Maureen Lemieux told the City Council on Oct. 5 that Newton is still preparing for a possible pension obligation bond but cannot issue one now.
12th Bristol
Taunton's schools are handing back grant money that expired before the work was done. The Taunton School Committee meeting recording with retrieved captions carries a report that a $30,000 unused grant for school water improvements had to be returned.
10th Bristol
Rochester's Select Board has paused its Flock license-plate cameras while the town investigates the system and its contract. After residents packed the Senior Center meeting room on Monday, Oct. 5, the board voted unanimously to suspend use for 30 days, according to The Wanderer.
2nd Suffolk (Senate)
The City Council moved $268,887 to pay for BPS school police raises. On Oct. 7, the Boston City Council passed Docket 1829.
9th Plymouth
East Bridgewater's Oct. 7 special town meeting took up a data center ban, and amendments to turn it into a temporary moratorium. The recording shows that the printed Article 2 was not the only text before voters. The collected sources did not establish how the article ended.
9th Bristol
A proposed $1.3 million line would keep New Bedford's Fire Station 9 open through the fiscal year. Gov. Maura Healey's new appropriations bill would also add New Bedford to the Municipal Public Safety Staffing Program, which helps 10 cities with police or fire staffing shortfalls.
8th Bristol
A $1.3 million line item in Gov. Maura Healey's new appropriations bill would keep New Bedford's Fire Station 9 open through the end of the fiscal year. State Reps.
6th Plymouth
Hanson's Special Town Meeting approved limited recreational marijuana delivery and shelved a $250,000 water-exploration request. At the Oct. 5 session, South Shore News reports, voters approved Article 32 on a counted vote of 53-33.
5th Plymouth
Hanson's Special Town Meeting on Oct. 5 approved limited recreational marijuana delivery and shelved a $250,000 water exploration request. South Shore News reports that Article 32 passed on a counted vote of 53-33.
5th Bristol
Taunton Public Schools is returning a $30,000 grant for school water improvements that went unused, according to the Oct. 7 School Committee meeting. The meeting included a finance update. The caption text says the district "had to" return the money.
4th Plymouth
Scituate's schools have frozen this year's budget and are holding back 20% of expense lines. The forecast for fiscal 2028 is an increase of about $400,000, less than 1%.
3rd Plymouth
Hingham's school roof projects need two votes, and storm leaks arrived first. Superintendent Katie Roberts told the School Committee that weekend storm leaks at South School and Hingham High School needed facilities-crew cleanup.
3rd Bristol & Plymouth (Senate)
Two planning boards were handling data center zoning bylaws this week.
2nd Plymouth & Norfolk (Senate)
Hanson voters allow marijuana delivery and set aside a $250,000 water search. At Monday's Special Town Meeting, voters approved limited recreational marijuana delivery on a counted vote of 53-33, according to South Shore News. Article 32 was the last item of the night.
2nd Plymouth
Middleborough's Planning Board took up a proposed data center ban and other zoning changes, and at least one hearing stays open.
2nd Bristol & Plymouth (Senate)
Gov. Maura Healey's new appropriations bill includes a $1.3 million line item that would keep New Bedford's Fire Station 9 open through June 30, the end of the current fiscal year.
1st Plymouth
Select Board signs on to a 392-unit apartment project off Carver Road. The Plymouth Select Board voted 4-1 on Sept. 29 to approve a memorandum of agreement and a letter of support for a "friendly" Chapter 40B project at 120 Carver Road, South Shore News reported.
18th Worcester
Webster's Zoning Board of Appeals put a ski club's zoning appeal off until November. At its Oct. 6 meeting, the board took up an appeal of a zoning determination involving a ski club at 235 Thompson Road.
13th Middlesex
Lincoln residents will choose between a geothermal and a conventional library heating system at the Oct. 24 Special Town Meeting, and officials say neither would raise taxes immediately.
12th Plymouth
Plymouth's Select Board has backed a 392-unit "friendly" 40B apartment project off Carver Road. The South Shore News reports the board voted 4-1 on Sept. 29 to approve a memorandum of agreement and a letter of support for the project at 120 Carver Road.
12th Bristol
Taunton schools return a $30,000 water-improvement grant, and the new finance director reports on clean-up work. At its Oct. 7 meeting, the Taunton School Committee received a report from the district's director of finance.
10th Bristol
Rochester turns off its Flock cameras for a month, joining other South Coast towns reconsidering them. After residents spoke against the license-plate readers at its Monday, Oct. 5 meeting, the Select Board halted their use.
7th Plymouth
East Bridgewater's Oct. 7 special town meeting took up a data center ban, and a temporary moratorium was offered in its place.
9th Plymouth
Brockton, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Easton; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
8th Congressional
Easton, Quincy, Avon, Braintree, Canton, Dedham, Holbrook, Norwood, Stoughton, Walpole, Westwood, Weymouth, Brockton, Abington, East Bridgewater, Hingham, Hull, West Bridgewater, Whitman; collection is town-level and may include reporting from outside the district's represented precincts
7th Plymouth
Abington, Whitman, East Bridgewater
5th Plymouth
Hanover, Rockland, Norwell, Hanson
5th Norfolk
Braintree, Holbrook
5th Bristol
Dighton, Somerset, Swansea, Taunton